rowan
Americannoun
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the European mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia, having pinnate leaves and clusters of bright red berries.
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either of two American mountain ashes, Sorbus americana or S. sambucifolia.
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the berry of any of these trees.
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Etymology
Origin of rowan
1795–1805; < Old Norse *raun- in reynir, Norwegian raun
Example Sentences
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He said the birds were usually seen in town centres and supermarket car parks where they could find their favourite berries - from rowan trees.
From BBC ● Jan. 11, 2024
The moose mostly ate birch, rowan and willow trees.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2023
Flavored with Scottish rowan berry among other botanicals.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2021
Surrounded by sea and hills, rowan trees, hawthorn and holly, it had a fragrant compost loo-with-a-view.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 24, 2016
Renn gave him a sprig of rowan for protection, and one of her salmon-skin mittens on a cord.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Among the pines grew rowans hung with scarlet berries, and bilberry bushes whose leaves would be fair game for white moth caterpillars in spring.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 25, 2020
Gurgi, sniffing hungrily, ran ahead and disappeared into a stand of rowans.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
Just as he reached the little lawn among the rowans he overtook him, toiling uphill, panting and calling, Frodo!
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Nevertheless, he could not quite overcome his surprise when, after a short while, they indeed came upon a swift running brook winding its way through a stand of rowans.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
There was a cluster o' young rowans with broom and gorse thick under them.
From Robin by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
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